Tonight: Gadget

This time I'm gonna talk about gadgets. No more, no less.

We all have our favorite gadget. In my case, it’s my cell phone. When I was a child mobile phones were just made to call. I remember the first cell phone that my father had. It looked like a brick. It was really big, heavy and the quality of the sound wasn’t the best. Also, the duration of the battery didn't last than 6 hours.

As time passed, appeared the SMS, the games, the accessories (like calculators, agenda, etc.), the color screen, the MMS, the mobile internet, the cameras, the Bluetooth, the music players, the GPS, the touch screens, the compass, the high definition cameras, the gyroscopes, the access to Wi-Fi, the laundry system (?) and many others.

Today, having a mobile phone is indispensable to survive in our world. I don’t know how my mother did it when she was young to locate her friends, or meet someone in somewhere. 

I like my phone (that’s why I chosen it), but in my life I had almost 10 different phones. I had the first when I was 10 years old. It was a Nokia 3390. Then, the things changed, the technologies did it too, and now, I have a Nokia C3. 

The principal use of my phone is, not obviously as I thought, to call people. Also I use it to listen to music, as a camera, and to access the web. Some people use their phone for anything except to call. I think that’s funny. I have a friend who has an iPhone, but I never see him calling somebody or receiving a call.

I don’t know what I would do without a phone. I guess… I don’t know. 

What do you do with your phones?

Tonight: Music

What am I gonna talk about this time? The answer is: Music

Right now, I'm thinking in two words: Daft Punk. This is my favorite band. Daft Punk is an electronic music formed by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They are experimenting musically all the time. The duo released their first album called Homework in 1997. It was acclaimed by the critical, and it was a commercially successful production. Then, in 2001 they released their second album: Discovery. One of the singles of the album, One More Time, became a major club and mainstream hit. There was more successful singles, like Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger; Digital Love and Face to Face. 

 

In 2004 they released a new album: Human After All, which hasn’t got the same commercial success like its predecessors, but had two much known songs: Human After All, and Robot Rock. 

The last years, they just worked in little projects, like composing music for movies like Disney’s Tron: Legacy. The rumors say that they might be working in a new album, but it hasn’t been confirmed by the duo.

Their music is much known around the world (it’s the name of one of their mostly known songs). Their songs are frequently played in bars, discotheques and sites where electronic music is usually played.

Here’s what I consider their best song: One More Time. Enjoy!

Something about the NYT

The New York Times (also known as NYT) is an American newspaper founded in 1851. It has won many prizes (early 104 Pulitzer), and it’s the most popular newspaper website in America, receiving monthly 30 million visitors. Also, it’s one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the world.

The New York Times talks about many things. It’s organized in three big sections (including a magazine). The first is the news section, which includes national, international, business, technology, science, health, sports and weather news. The second is the opinion section, and the third is the features section, which includes arts, movies, theatre, travel, home, and miscellaneous news. It’s important to note that the NYT doesn’t have its own staff editorial cartoonist. (I don’t know if there are puzzles in the newspaper…)

I like this newspaper for many reasons. One of them is the huge reputation that it has. It’s one of the most known newspapers around the world. Daily, early one million people read news in the NYT. It’s also published on internet, and you can access it even from your mobile phone! Isn’t that amazing? I guess it is.

Tonight: Movies

What am I gonna talk about today? The answer is: "Movies"

This is not my favorite movie, but I think is one of the most epic films of the 70's. It doesn't haves great special effects, or an internationally known cast, but it's... just awesome. I'm talking about "The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". It is a 70's cult film directed by John de Bello, and is a spoof of “B Movies”

This movie opens with a message that says, when Hitchcock’s film “The Birds” was released, the public laughed about the idea of a birds revolting against the humanity, but when a situation like that really happened in 1975, nobody laughed. Then, there are a series of attacks perpetrated by tomatoes (including a man dying by drinking tomato juice made from a killer tomato). The movie ends with a carrot that rises from the ground and says "All right, you guys. They're gone now."

Here's a trailer of the movie:

Enjoy!